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Like A Layer On A Pearl, You Can't Specifically Identify The Irritant, The Moment Of The Irritant, But At The End Of The Day, You Know You Have A Pearl.

I Record All Of My Music With Authentic Instruments In A Studio Before We Start Editing, Doing Many, Many Versions. The Music Shapes The Film As We Edit So It Has An Organic Relationship To The Content.

I Read Cover To Cover Every Jazz Publication That I Could And In The New York Times, Every Single Day Reading Their Jazz Reviews Even Though I Didn't Put Them In The Films. I Wanted To Know What Is Going On.

You Can Learn As Much About The History From Reading About The Present As You Can Vice Versa, That Is Learning About The Present Through History, Which Is What I Do For A Living.

When A Documentary Filmmaker, Working In The Style That I Do, Suggests That There Has Been A Shooting Ratio Of 40 Hours To Every One Hour Of Finished Film, That Doesn't Mean That The Other 39 Are Bad.